Committee to Impose Term Limits on the Ohio Supreme Court & to Preclude Special Legal Status for Members & Employees of the Ohio General Assembly v. Ohio Ballot Board

OPINION & ORDER

JAMES L. GRAHAM, United States District Judge

Plaintiffs move for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. (Doc. 2). Plaintiffs want to put a two-part constitutional amendment on the ballot by way of Ohio’s initiative process. Ohio prohibits anyone from proposing to its voters a mul-ti-part amendment or law. Ohio tasked the Ohio Ballot Board with enforcing this rule. Plaintiffs sued the Ohio Ballot Board and its members (and Ohio’s Attorney General), alleging that Ohio’s restriction is an unconstitutional restraint on free speech.

I) Background

There are four…